The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-02-15
THE BILL,

They are q sad and disappointed
gang CT fellows, Governor West and
his Loyal League associates and CO
conspiTators in the scheme to deprive
the people Of Utah of all political
rights. Whatever may become of the
Tucker +, whether or not it shall pass
Congress and receive the executive ap-
proyal, Governor West will have no
patronage to bestow, and those adven-
turers and carpet-baggers who were
counting on receiving appointments to
Office from West must go without the
pap They so confidently expected. The
scheme to plunder the Territory finan-
clally as well as politically has been
squelched, and the hungry horde must
continue with appetites unsatistied.
There is nothing in the bill as patched
up and agreed upon by the conference
committee to cheer the Mormons or
encourage in them the belief that
q ~ sense Of justice or right remains in
Congress; yet the defeat OF the con-
spiracy entered into by the Governor
and those who have useRhim as tool,
IS something over which the Mormons
and all honest men can rejoice.
The HERALD has not yet been con-
vinced that the scoundrelly measure
will ever become law in any form. On
the contrary, from the first we have be-
lieved the bill would fail, that belief
growing stronger as the confidence and
assurance of the League agents in
Washington grew more pronounced and
the jubilatiOn OF the hungry local
Leaguers grew louder. To-day the bill
is in a worse position for its immediate
passage than it occupied the morning
OF the day when it was called up by
Tucker in the House. While one or the
other house has passed the entire bill.
with the exception of the alleged amend
ment by the conference committee in the
matter of the test oath, neither house
4as adopted the measure in its entirety
The most important features of the |
House amendment to the Senate bill |
have been eliminated, and many of the |
leading features Of the Senate bill have
been stricken out, so that the bill as it
shall be presented by the conference
committee will be practically new to
each house.
And back of Congress with mind and
Will of his own, and the courage to use
them in defiance of political threats
and against foolish popular sentiment
sits the President. We are told by Gov
ernor West and others that the Pres
ident is eager to approve the bill; but
We were also told By these same gentle
men that Edmunds was in accord |
with the Tucker bill, and would
accept it in its entirety; at
first that the Senate would pass it the
moment it was received fror the
House, then that the conference gom-
mittee was really the short CUT to the
bill ) passage, then that the committee
would not change the bin, and so on.
As nothing that these gentlemen have
said has been verified, it is but fair
10 assume that they talked
with their mouths as the boys saw.
knowing nothing of the correctness of
what they were saying; and it is only
reasonable 10 assume that they know
less OF what viii be the action OF the
President than they did Of that of Con-
gTeSsIuen. Mr.. Cleveland, with al due
respect to the Loyal League lobbyists.
official and otherwise, is not the man to
tell struggling callers for fifteen
minutes, what he proposes TO do with
reference to bills to come before him
FOR action.
At any rate, the Tucker Edmunds
bill IS not law. There will be no dis
pute as to this fact.